{"id":48600,"date":"2015-09-09T13:55:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=48600"},"modified":"2015-09-09T13:55:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:55:25","slug":"barack-obamas-long-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/09\/barack-obamas-long-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama\u2019s Long Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Barack Obama is not a modest man, but when it comes to assessing his or any president\u2019s place in the long American story, he has been heard to say, \u201cWe just try to get our paragraph right.\u201d Yet the way a raft of recent events have broken sharply in his favor, Obama suddenly seems well on his way to writing a whole page\u2014or at least a big, fat passage\u2014in the history books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the Supreme Court decisions upholding his signature health care plan and the right of gay Americans to marry, to contested passage of fast track trade authority, the opening of normal diplomatic relations with Cuba and an international agreement to curtail Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons program, Obama is on a policy and political roll that would have seem unimaginable to many in Washington only a few months ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cObama may be singular as a president, not only because of his striking background,\u201d says Kenneth Adelman, who was Ronald Reagan\u2019s arms control negotiator with the Soviets three decades ago, and who has his doubts about the Iran deal. \u201cIt may turn out that unlike virtually any other president, his second term is actually better than his first.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rallying his cabinet in January in the wake of the Democratic Party\u2019s decisive defeat in last fall\u2019s midterm elections, Obama himself maintained, \u201cInteresting stuff happens in the fourth quarter.\u201d This president has always been something of a clutch player, but his command of recent events\u2014from his soaring eulogy for the victims of the Charleston church massacre, to his commutation of more sentences for non-violent criminal offenders than any president since Franklin Roosevelt\u2014goes a good way toward proving the prescience of his words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read Full Article =>\u00a0Barack Obama\u2019s Long Game – POLITICO Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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